Bangs: CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WAR OF 1812, AND THE CIVIL WAR, NEW YORK STATE AND CITY, NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, NAVAL AND YACHTING ITEMS, HISTORIES OF KANSAS, MEXICO, WEST INDIES, VIRGINIA, COLORADO, WISCONSIN, MASSACHUSETTS, INDIA, AFRIC, Dec111900,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 1900 - December 11, 1900

Page Size: 379 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	IRVING, WASHINGTON	Life of George Washington	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
102		BOSTON. Salem Directory and City Register	Salem	1851-55-61-64	USD -	Unknown
103		VIRGINIA. Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed in 1865-66, in the 89th Year of the Commonwealth	Richmond	1866	USD -	Unknown
104	Lorin Blodgett	CLIMATOLOGY OF THE U. S. and of the Temperate Latitudes of the North American Continent	Phil.	1857	USD -	Unknown
105		CANADA. Ontario Agricultural Commission Report	Toronto	1881	USD -	Unknown
106		CENSUS OF 1810. Tables of the Several Branches of American Manufactures, exhibiting them in every County of the Union	Wash.	1810	USD -	Unknown
107		COMMERCIAL TARIFFS, and Regulations, Resources and Trade of the several States of Europe and America	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
108		BIOGRAPHY. Dictionnaire Historique de tons les Hommes qui se sont fait un nom par des Talens, des Vertus, des Forfaits, des Erreurs, etc.	Lyon	1789	USD -	Unknown
109	J. P. Brissot de Warville	COMMERCE OF AMERICA WITH EUROPE	N. Y.	1795	USD -	Unknown
110		NEW YORK. The American Advertising Directory for Manufacturers and Dealers in American Goods	N. Y.	1831	USD -	Unknown
111	P. A. Goodwin	WAR OF 1812. Biography of Andrew Jackson, President of the U. S.	Hartford	1847	USD -	Unknown
112		NEW YORK. Messages Delivered to the Common Council during the Mayoralty of the Honorable Gideon Lee	N. Y.	1834	USD -	Unknown
113	A. Jones	GENEALOGY. The Cymry of '76, or Welshmen and their Descendants of the Revolution	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
114	Marshall Hall	SLAVERY. The Twofold Slavery of the U. S., with a Project of Self-Emancipation	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
115		VIRGINIA. Colonial Records of Virginia. (List of the Living and the Dead in 1623: a List of the Number of Men, Women and Children within the Colony in 1634, etc.)	Richmond	1874	USD -	Unknown
116	(John Lowell)	NEW ENGLAND PATRIOT (THE). A Candid Comparison of the Principles and Conduct of the Washington and Jefferson Administrations	Bost.	1810	USD -	Unknown
117	H. Y. Hind	CANADA. Preliminary Report on the Geology of New Brunswick, with a Special Report on the Distribution of the "Quebec Group" in the Province	Fredericton	1865	USD -	Unknown
118	H. C. Yarrow	INDIANS. Study of Mortuary Customs among the North American Indians	Wash.	1880	USD -	Unknown
119		LONG ISLAND. Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society	Brooklyn	1867-9	USD -	Unknown
120	(G. B. Emerson)	FORESTRY. Report on the Trees and Shrubs growing naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts	Bost.	1850	USD -	Unknown
121		CONGRESS. Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States	N. Y.	1789	USD -	Unknown
122	G. R. Porter. (Population and Production, Revenue and Expenditure)	ENGLAND. Progress of the Nation: its Various Social and Economical Relations	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
123		CONSTITUTIONAL LAW	Wash.	1820	USD -	Unknown
124		INDIANS. Tah-gah-Jute; or, Logan and Cresap: an Historical Essay by Brantz Mayer	Albany	1867	USD -	Unknown
125	Lorenzo Sabine	FISHERIES. The Principal Fisheries of the American Seas	Wash.	1853	USD -	Unknown
126	G. W. Feather-stonhaugh	MISSOURI. Geological Report of the Elevated Country between the Missouri and Red Rivers	Wash.	1835	USD -	Unknown
127	G. W. Featherstonhaugh	WISCONSIN. Report of a Geological Reconnoissance to the Coteau de Prairie by the way of Green Bay and Wisconsin Territory	Wash.	1836	USD -	Unknown
128	Geo. W. Paschal	CONSTITUTION of the United Slates Defined and carefully Annotated	Wash.	1868	USD -	Unknown
129		NEW YORK. The New Revision of the Statutes of the State of New York	Albany	1876-77	USD -	Unknown
130		AMERICAN STATE PAPERS and Public Documents from the Accession of George Washington, exhibiting a complete View of our Foreign Relations since that lime	Bost.	1817	USD -	Unknown
131	C. A. White	IOWA. Geological Survey of the State of Iowa	Des Moines	1870	USD -	Unknown
132		WISCONSIN. Geology of Wisconsin, 1873-79...	N. Y. and Madison	1879-1880	USD -	Unknown
133	James M'Sherry (author of "A History of Maryland")	INDIANS. Father Laval; or, The Jesuit Missionary: a Tale of the North American Indians	Balt.	1870	USD -	Unknown
134	F. S. Eastman	NEW YORK. A History of the State of New York from its First Discovery	N. Y.	1828	USD -	Unknown
135	J. H. Barrett	LINCOLN. Life of Abraham Lincoln and a concise History of the War	Ginn.	1864	USD -	Unknown
136		MASSACHUSETTS. Debates and Proceedings of the Massachusetts Convention to Ratify the Federal Constitution	Bost.	1808	USD -	Unknown
137	LINCOLN	The Martyr's Monument: Being the Patriotism and Political Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln	N. Y.	(1865)	USD -	Unknown
138	M. Blake	MASSACHUSETTS. Centurial History of the Mendon Association, with Biographical Sketches of the Members and Licentiates	Bost.	1853	USD -	Unknown
139	George Geddes	INDIANS. Report on the Agriculture and Industry of the County of Onondaga, N. Y.	Albany	1860	USD -	Unknown
140		MARYLAND. Constitution and Laws of Maryland in Liberia	Balt.	1837	USD -	Unknown
141		NEW JERSEY. Minutes of the Provincial Congress and the Council of Safety of the State of New Jersey, 1775--76	Trenton	1879	USD -	Unknown
142		NEW YORK. Documents of the City Convention for forming a new, or Revising and Amending the present, Charter	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
143		NEW YORK. Charter of the City of New York	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
144		FISHERIES AND THE MISSISSIPPI. Documents relating to the Negotiation at Ghent	Wash.	1822	USD -	Unknown
145	J. R. Bigelow	CONSTITUTIONS of the several States in the Union	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
146	Oliver Warner	MASSACHUSETTS. Journal of the Valuation Committee of 1860, together with Acts 1861, to secure a Uniform Description and Appraisal of Estates in the Commonwealth	Bost.	1861	USD -	Unknown
147		NEW YORK. History of the Public School Society of the City of New York	N. Y.	1870	USD -	Unknown
148		CHICAGO. Annual Reports of the Department of Public Works of the City of Chicago. I. to IV. inclusive	Chicago	1877-81	USD -	Unknown
149	C. J. Latrobe	MEXICO. The Rambler in Mexico	N. Y.	1836	USD -	Unknown
150	Sir George Campbell	WHITE AND BLACK...	N. Y.	1879	USD -	Unknown
151	Emma Willard	MEXICAN WAR. Last Leaves of American History, comprising Histories of the Mexican War and California	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
152	John Eslen Cooke	CONFEDERATE. Stonewall Jackson: a Military Biography	N. Y.	1866	USD -	Unknown
153	W. B. Lawrence	UNITED STATES NAVY. Visitation and Search; or, An Historical Sketch of the British Claim to exercise a Maritime Police over the Vessels of all Nations, in Peace as well as NN ar	Bost.	1858	USD -	Unknown
154	G. NV. Cullum	UNITED STATES ARMY. Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1802 to 1867	N. Y.	1868	USD -	Unknown
155		NEW YORK. Annual Reports of the Metropolitan Board of Health	N. Y.	1866-70	USD -	Unknown
156	Stephen Simpson	GIRARD. Biography of Stephen Girard, with his Will and Account of his Private Life, Habits, etc., and a detailed Account of his Financial Operations	Phil.	1832	USD -	Unknown
157	Edwin M. Stone	RHODE ISLAND. Life and Recollections of John Howland, late President of the Rhode Island Historical Society	Providence	1857	USD -	Unknown
158	(Horace Binney)	WASHINGTON. An Inquiry into the Formation of Washington's Farewell Address	Phil.	1859	USD -	Unknown
159	J. J. Gurney	WEST INDIES. Letters to Henry Clay describing a Winter in the West Indies	N. Y.	1840	USD -	Unknown
160	David Ramsay	WASHINGTON. Life of George Washington	Bost.	1811	USD -	Unknown
161	Hugh A. Garland	RANDOLPH. Life of John Randolph of Roanoke	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
162	W. S. Forrest	VIRGINIA. Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Norfolk and Vicinity, including Portsmouth and the Adjacent Counties, during a period of 200 years	Phil.	1853	USD -	Unknown
163	WALSH, ROBERT	Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain respecting the United States of America	Phil.	1819	USD -	Unknown
164	Noah Webster	HISTORY of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases, with the Principal Phenomena of the Physical World which precede and accompany them	Hartford	1799	USD -	Unknown
165		VIRGINIA. Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758. Now first printed from the MS. in the Collections of the Virginia Historical Society	Richmond	1883	USD -	Unknown
166		AMERICAN STAGE. Wemyss' Chronology of the American Stage from 1752 to 1852	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
167	R. Snowden	HISTORY of North and South America from its Discovery to the Death of Gen. Washington	Phil.	1819	USD -	Unknown
168	J. E. Worcester	GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY; or, Universal Gazetteer. Ancient and Modern	Bost.	1823	USD -	Unknown
169		GEOGRAPHY. Guthrie's New System of Geography	Phil.	1795	USD -	Unknown
170	Lewis C. Beck, W. Mather, E. Emmons, Vanuxem, and others	NEW YORK Geological and Mineralogical Reports for 1837-8-9-40-41	Albany	1840	USD -	Unknown
171	Napoleon Landais	FRENCH DICTIONARY. Dictionnaire General et Grammatical	Paris	1839	USD -	Unknown
172		MIRANDA EXPEDITION. Trials of William S. Smith and Samuel G. Ogden for Misdemeanours (the Miranda Expedition), in the Circuit Court of the U. S. for the N.Y. District, in July, 1806	N. Y.	1807	USD -	Unknown
173	Baron Cuvier	NATURAL HISTORY. The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its Organization	N. Y.	1831	USD -	Unknown
174	DE PEYSTER, FREDERICK	William III. as a Reformer	N. Y.	1874	USD -	Unknown
175		NEW YORK. Early Life, Congressional Career and Triumphant Municipal Administration of Fernando Wood, Mayor of New York	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
176	W. J. Brownell	IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES. History of, with Number, Sex, Age, Occupation and Country of Birth, etc.	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
177		INDIANS. The Case of the Seneca Indians in the State of New York	Phil.	1840	USD -	Unknown
178	O. M. Taylor	MARYLAND History of Annapolis. With a full Description of the U. S. Naval Academy	Balt.	1872	USD -	Unknown
179	Robert Troup	NEW YORK CANALS. Vindication of the Claim of Elkanah Watson to the Merit of Projecting the Lake Canal Policy	Geneva	1821	USD -	Unknown
180		NEW YORK. Documentary History of the State of New York	Albany	1849	USD -	Unknown
181	William Apes	INDIANS. Indian Nullification; or, The Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts relative to the Marshpee Tribe	Bost.	1835	USD -	Unknown
182	Fred Gerhard	ILLINOIS AS IT IS: Its History, Geography, Laws, etc.	Chicago	1857	USD -	Unknown
183		HISTORY OF CONGRESS, exhibiting a classification of the proceedings of the Senate and the House of Representatives, embracing the First Term of the Administration of General Washington	Phil.	1843	USD -	Unknown
184		MASSACHUSETTS. Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention, May 4, 1853, to revise and amend the Constitution	Bost.	1853	USD -	Unknown
185	Victor M. Rice	EDUCATION. Special Report on the Present State of Education in the U. S. and other Countries, and on Compulsory Instruction	Albany	1867	USD -	Unknown
186		DICTIONARY. Italian-French, del Gaetano Nassoir	Venezia	1810	USD -	Unknown
187	J. M. Toner	CLIMATOLOGY. Dictionary of Elevations and Climatic Register of the U. S. Containing, in addition to Elevations, the Latitude, Mean Temperature, Rainfall, etc., of Localities	N. Y.	1874	USD -	Unknown
188		NEW YORK. The Black River Water Claims before the Canal Appraisers of the State of N. Y	N. Y.	1869	USD -	Unknown
189		NEW YORK. Obsequies of Henry Clay	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
190		MAINE. Revised Statutes of the State of Maine, passed October, 1840	Augusta	1841	USD -	Unknown
191	T. R. Malthus	POPULATION QUESTION. An Essay on the Principle of Population, or a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness, with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions	Lond.	1803	USD -	Unknown
192	E. B. O'Callaghan, editor	NEW YORK. Documentary History of the State of New York	Albany	1851	USD -	Unknown
193		INDIANS. Contributions to American Ethnology. Under the direction of J. W. Powell. (Tribes of the Extreme Northwest, House Life of American Aborigines, Tribes of California, etc.)	Wash.	1877	USD -	Unknown
194		MARYLAND. Pocket Annuals for 1835-36-39-42. With Lists of County Officers, Almac Joint Stock Companies, Legislature, etc.	Annapolis	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
195		PENNSYLVANIA. Debates of the Convention to Amend the Constitution, convened at Harrisburg, 1872	Harrisburg	1873	USD -	Unknown
196	Jared Sparks	WASHINGTON. The Writings of George Washington: being his Correspondence, Addresses, Messages and other Papers, Official and Private	Bost.	1855	USD -	Unknown
197		TREATY OF WASHINGTON, Papers relating to the; Geneva and Berlin Arbitration	Wash.	1872	USD -	Unknown
198		PENNSYLVANIA. Historical Review of the Government and Constitution of Pennsylvania from its Origin...	Lond.	1759	USD -	Unknown
199	Bryan Edwards of Jamaica	WEST INDIES. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies	Dublin	1793	USD -	Unknown
200		ARCTIC. Cruise of the Revenue Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic Ocean in 1881	Wash.	1883	USD -	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.